How to use the PHP interactive shell

Question

I\'m using Ubuntu 12.04 64 bit and I want to use the PHP interactive shell:

php -a

But it doesn\'t seem to work very well, a lot of syntax

Answer 1

Try installing http://www.phpsh.org/ it is probably the easiest solution.

Steps: (assuming dependency's installed)

1. git clone https://github.com/facebook/phpsh
2. cd phpsh
3. sudo python setup.py install
4. phpsh